The Council of Black Administrators (COBA) aim to help African American students succeed by addressing and resolving issues that are unique to young people of color.
Volunteers gave the gift of helping hands in honor of the holiday at George Washington Carver Middle School.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) wrapped up day six of the teacher strike with a historic agreement that is said to change the future of public education.
Black parents want a quality education for their children. But countless demands that their children have a right to such an education typically fall on deaf ears, even though Black students remain disproportionately at the lowest achievement levels. Low achieving students should be the chief target of education reform, but non-English and limited English-speaking students in Los Angeles (LAUSD) receive far more resources than Black students.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers returned to work Wednesday after voting to ratify a contract deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike at the nation’s second-largest district. “Great! It can’t be better!” exclaimed Helen Han, a kindergarten Mandarin language teacher, as she returned to Castelar Elementary in Chinatown. “I wasn’t really worried because the parents were totally behind us.” Her colleague, third-grade teacher Van Morales, said it was a joy to go back to her students. “It’s missed time that we need to make up,” she said. Teachers and administrators
SACRAMENTO – Sen. Holly J. Mitchell of Los Angeles today issued the following statement regarding the ongoing strike by the United Teachers of Los Angeles in the Los Angeles Unified School District: “I am both a product of LAUSD and the parent of a former LAUSD student. I value the role and experience of our teachers and firmly believe that we cannot expect children to thrive in a class size of 50. That simply is an untenable environment. Proposition 13 severely impacted school district funding over 40 years ago and the voters can no longer ignore that reality. “The governor released
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Los Angeles teachers strike (all times local): 8:15 a.m. Los Angeles Unified School District officials are urging teachers to return to the bargaining table as the strike by educators enters its second day. Superintendent Austin Beutner told reporters Tuesday that the district does not have the money to do everything the teachers union wants, and he urged them to join him in pushing for more state funding. Beutner says about 144,000 of the district’s 640,000 students attended schools on Monday, the first day of the strike. The district hired substitutes to replace
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teachers in Los Angeles, whose 640,000 students make it the nation’s second-largest school district, are ready to strike Thursday over a contract dispute that follows teacher walkouts in other states that emboldened organized labor after a critical defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court. United Teachers Los Angeles said its 35,000 members would walk off the job for the first time in 30 years if a deal isn’t reached on higher pay and smaller class sizes. The Los Angeles Unified School District says the union’s demands could bankrupt the school system, which is projecting a half-billion-dollar deficit
The teacher’s union is threatening to strike because it says current conditions are unbearable. They say teacher’s salaries have not kept up with cost of living increases; over crowded classes with 40 or more students makes quality instruction impossible. And they say they need more ancillary help: nurses, social workers and librarians in every school.
It’s easy to know which side to pick when villains dress in all black and sport five o’clock shadows. But rarely is life that simple. During my legal career, I’ve found there’s often a gray area—no archetypical bad guy—only two opposing sides with competing interests. That’s where we find ourselves right now in the ongoing battle between LA Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). And although neither side has indicated a willingness to capitulate on their respective positions, my years of experience as a litigator and children’s rights advocate lead me to conclude that in this epic battle, putting our kids first means each side must compromise.
In a previous column, Schools Fail Black Students, So Why Are We Silent? (Nov. 2008), I described barriers in LAUSD that contributed to a failure of the district to properly educate Black students. Substantially